anywhere in albion

Pete wearing Kate's dress.

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Tone Down

Today we see the end of the Tony years and the start of the Brown Year. For a few minutes today we were Prime Minister-less, whilst the complicated protocol between Downing Street and Buck House took place. Why the two guys couldn’t share a ride and show up together is a question we shouldn’t ask. And it’s not as if the Queen would be surprised about it – or maybe she doesn’t watch telly?

Georgie had a few things to say too, I noticed. He seemed to use negatives more than absolutely necessary. Why say something about the rumours were not true about Tony being his pet poodle? And that Gordon was not a dour Scotsman? If anything is guaranteed to ensure that everyone has heard both of these wisecracks it would be the through the global broadcast of a world leader. Oh well.

Will Gordon get to have an ‘s’ on the end of Year? We shall have to wait to see…

bigfoot

With all the talk of muddy footprints over the last few days, I thought it would be interesting to do some footprint detection of my own.

I started with the big footprint of Prince Charles. That's Carbon footprint, which he quotes as the princely size of 3,421 tonnes of Carbon Dioxide. Quite a lot. A Ford Mondeo weighs 1.5 tonnes. So that carbon footprint is around the weight of 2,280 cars, or 6.25 cars weight of CO2 per day.

I separately calculated rashbre central's output, which is roughly one per cent of the Prince's figure, including all of rashbre central's travel and air mileage.

This makes me wonder if its actually understated for the Prince, who doesn't seem to mind using helicopters and chauffeured cars driving in parallel to his own train journey.

Next, I looked at the cost, for rashbre central of creating some sustainable forestry as a full offset. I selected reforestation of a small part of the Great Rift Valley, in Kenya, where a modest sum can fully offset the CO2 emission. At one level, being thoughtful can help reduce the original number(lights off etc), at another level, doing something in an area where the money makes a big difference can create a personal offset.

So do you want to have a look at your own carbon footprint profile? its right here

And the science part? A litre of gasoline(petrol) weighs around a kilo. 87% is carbon and the rest hydrogen. When the gasoline burns, the carbon fuses with oxygen (atomic weights 12C+16O+16O= 44CO2 or 44/12=3.7x as much), so the weight of the litre of gasoline becomes 87% of 3.7 times as much in CO2 emission terms (3.2 times as heavy).

glastonbury mud

I've been helping get photos loaded across on Christina Nott's website this weekend, courtesy of the Glastonbury mud.

They seem to be mainly mobile phone shots and I've tried to link them to the posts appearing at this year's musical mud-fest.

From what I can see, and have heard, it seems to be an excellent event.

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laser or sonic?

Dr Who's Nemesis is the detective from Life on Mars. As the current episodes also have Captain Jack from Torchwood, its a bit of a time traveller fest. Add the current Dr Who assistant and as the Master remarked in the last episode, all demographics are represented.

Tonight's episode featured a Prime Minister of the United Kingdom with a sketchy past presiding over the end of the world, whilst being initially bossed around by President of the United States. Obviously fictional.

Things get out of hand when the Prime Minister uses his big balls and then his laser screwdriver to overpower the mere sonics of the Doctor. I shall have to remember to record next week's episode so that I see then end of the series.

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nott my picture

Christina has sent me a few emails with Glastonbury photos to upload to her blog. Unfortunately, the password I used when I set up the blog seems to have changed and I shall have to wait until I get a text or email with the right information. In the meantime, I am reliably informed that it is quite muddy.

I shall wait for Bjork to be on BBC4 at 00:40UK.

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"I'll take it from here"

I've no idea whether it will be any good or not, but I expect I'll see 'Die Hard Four' or whatever its called.

Cyber attack on the United States with analogue hero Bruce no doubt speaking a few choice 'Bruce-isms".
...
"You just killed a helicopter with a car"..."I was out of bullets".
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"Why'd you bring a cop into my command center?" ... "command center? its a basement."

And launch date on 4th July, of course.

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contact

rashbre central has a rather erratic range of posts and topics which should deter anyone who wants to settle into a single theme. So its quite pleasing on the infrequent moments of browsing back through the tracker log to spot a familiar visitor from the past, even if they flit briefly past without leaving a comment. rashbre central says "hail fellow, well met" to such welcome travellers.

There's been a similar effect on email over the last few days. Outlook crashed with a horrible 81050014 error and in the process deleted all of my mobile phone contacts. I've recovered, but in the process, some long term acquaintances have made contact again.

Wordless Wednesday

the rain that broke the webcam

1008

oops. I passed 1,000 posts without realizing it. This is number 1008.

So I looked up 1008 A.D. and found the Leningrad Codex and also the year of the "The Tale of Genji" about the son of an emperor of Japan.

The tale was a lengthy psycho-drama in which Genji is exiled from court, goes adventuring, then through political intrigue eventually works his way back. There's a lot more that a one sentence summary of a complex set of stories can't relay and the tale is quite a well known in some parts of the world.

Unlike the Leningrad Codex, although the codex is reputedly the most common source of translation for the New Testament.

Harry Potter ending

Probably a hoax? Some things are insecure. I have not changed the wording.


From: go harry
Date: Tue, 19 Jun 2007 05:23:45 +0800
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* Harry Potter 0day
*
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Dear my brothers,

Voldemort killed Hermione. Yes, that's true. And we knew that 2 days ago.

This is the end of the not yet published (someone could call that 0day) book

Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows .

At the end of the story Hagrid was killed by Snape in the attempt of ambush Hermione and Ron.
Ron and Hermione flees in privet drive but Voldermort, surprising them, engaged a magical duel with Ron and Hermione.

Voldemort attacked trough the imperius curse and Hermione, to protect the life of Ron fight hardly for more than 6 pages and then finally die.
(boring, very boring... it's always the same story!)

Then, to make a long story short, Harry came up, killed all the bad guys and Hogwarts against became a good place to stay and have fun.

Ah, i missed one important information about Draco Malfoy, he started to create Horcrux (for fun and profit!).
The end.
************************************************************

Yes, we did it.
We did it by following the precious words of the great Pope Benedict XVI when he still was Cardinal Josepth Ratzinger.
He explained why Harry Potter bring the youngs of our earth to Neo Paganism faith.

So we make this spoiler to make reading of the upcoming book useless and boring.

The attack strategy was the easiest one.
The usual milw0rm downloaded exploit delivered by email/click-on-the-link/open-browser/click-on-this-animated-icon/back-connect to some employee of Bloomsbury Publishing, the company that's behind the Harry crap.

It's amazing to see how much people inside the company have copies and drafts of this book.
Curiosity killed the cat.

Who kill curiosity?

To protect you and your families

God bless you

Gabriel


So do we believe this, or not?

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Glastonbury Stage Live WebCam

UPDATE: Above picture is 2008
I've noticed a few 2008 Glastonbury hits coming to this 2007 post, so I've added the latest picture. Click it to go to the latest rashbre central entry... and below, for comparison, is the 2007 webcam picture just before the camera broke in the rain.

Another UK webcam moment; here's the Glastonbury main stage being assembled for the concerts which start in a few days.

Friend Christina will be heading along to the concert and is already packing tents and wellington boots.

UPDATE: the webcam broke with the rain.

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